An as-yet-unconfirmed report is that Rumsfeld while Secretary of Defense also purchased an additional stock in his former company, Gilead Sciences Inc., worth $18 million, making him one of its largest if not the largest stock owners today.

Cheney has Halliburton and Rumsfeld has Gilead Sciences.

Now I understand the 7.1 billion dollar plan to make a preemptive strike against a maybe someday pandemic. Listening to Bush announce the plan all you had to do was substitute "pandemic" with "mushroom cloud" and the speech sounded eerily familiar.